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Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
A comprehensive look at the 50 years of nuclear testing in Nevada through oral histories of the participants. In addition to the histories, the site includes a timeline, information about the test sites, and videos.
University of Texas at Austin
Voces Oral History Project: u.s. Latinos and Latinas and World War Ii
Find personal narratives from Hispanic Americans that served in World War II. Many faced harrowing experiences in war only to be discriminated against upon returning home.
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The Collection: Chicago Architects Oral History Project
Choose from an extensive list of Chicago area architects and learn information about their lives and their work. Includes links to interviews and biographies.
History Link
Bertha Pitts Campbell: An Oral History
From the Washington State Oral History Project comes this captivating interview with Bertha Pitts Campbell, an African American woman and early Seattle civil rights worker. Campbell talks about the discrimination and segregation she...
Library of Congress
Loc: Immigration and Oral History
The primary goal of this activity is to give students the genuine experience of oral history in order to appreciate the process of historiography. We identified immigrants in our community who reflect the ethnic diversity of our student...
Smithsonian Institution
Archives of American Arts: Oral History Interviews, Farm Security Administration
This site lists over 400 oral history interviews from artists, administrators and others involved with the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930's and 40's.
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Nashville Public Library Digital Collection: Veterans History Project Collection
A collection of oral history interviews and artifacts from veterans from Nashville, Tennessee and Davidson County, Tennessee. Most of the material and interviews come from World War II veterans, but a few are from later wars, including...
Library of Congress
Loc: Oral History and Social History
This lesson presents social history content and topics through the voices of ordinary people. It draws on primary sources from the collection, American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940.
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Story Corps: Every Voice Matters
StoryCorps is a national oral history project that records and preserves stories of people around the country. Select recordings are broadcast weekly on NPR, with an archive of stories available for playback at the StoryCorps online...
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National History Day
Students and teachers participate in a yearly history-themed competition and celebration of historical topics. Young learners conduct primary and secondary research by studying archives, museums, oral history interviews, and historical...
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Coney Island History Project
This site contains so many things you'd like to know about Coney Island, the amusement capital of New York. Click on the topics on the left of the title page to navigate the site.
Library of Congress
Loc: Migration During the Great Depression: Living History
Most people in Central Florida came from somewhere else. Students first analyze life histories from American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 to learn oral history techniques. They then interview...
Brown University
The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
Memories of 1968 are collected via interviews conducted by high school students. Important issues during that time include civil rights, Vietnam, the politics of the time and women's rights. There are transcripts of interviews and key...
George Mason University
Chnm: Critical Infrastructure Protection Oral History Project
Project documents the history of the nation's efforts to protect what has come to be called critical infrastructure--the systems and structures that are vital to the smooth and safe functioning of our economy, society, and way of life.
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Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
The Densho Project is a digital archive of oral history interviews, historical photographs and related documents that captures, shares and preserves the experiences of Japanese Americans before, during and after World War II.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Folklife Center
Set up to assist American families in tracing their family histories, this extensive guide explains how to begin the process, to conduct research, tp take oral interviews, and to locate and analyze documents.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Recordkeeping and History
Although many species note the passing of time, only our own species, Homo sapiens, is capable of sharing accounts, or memories, of past events and turning these into stories or "histories." This article traces the development of written...
Library of Congress
Loc: From the Home Front and the Front Lines
This exhibition consists of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections at the Library of Congress. With an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War...
Rice University
Independence Heights: Portrait of Historic Neighborhood
An oral history project recording the memories of long-time neighborhood residents of this black community near Houston, Texas.
University of Washington
University of Washington Libraries: South Asian Oral History Project
hese interviews reflect religious, linguistic, occupational and gender diversity and provide rich insight into changing experiences of South Asians in the Pacific Northwest.
Library of Congress
Loc: From the Home Front and the Front Lines
Exhibition consisting of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections.
University of Washington
Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects: Seattle General Strike
A comprehensive look at the Seattle General Strike, which began in February, 1919. Here you will find an explanation of why the strike began, an interactive map of the location of important events, oral histories, contemporary newspaper...
Illinois Institute of Technology
Oyez Project
The OYEZ Project is a vast multimedia relational database on the U.S. Supreme Court that contains abstracts for all leading constitutional decisions of the Court, authoritative oral arguments in streamed media format, and a 360-degree...
Kent State University
Kent State University: Kent State Shootings: May 4 Collections
From Kent University archives, find collections providing Frequently Asked Questions, May 4 Web Exhibit, oral history project, and legal aftermath. Trustworthy source of information on this tragic incident in history.